Save food for the Berliner Tafel as a co-driver
Berliner Tafel e.V.
- Food Saving
- Hands-on Activities
- Poverty Reduction
About the volunteering opportunity
The collection tours to the supermarkets start always in the morning at 8:00 am from the Berlin wholesale market in Moabit into the whole city area, in order to save sorted out food from supermarkets and other donors.
The tours form the basis of the Tafel work, since here the food is collected, which is distributed afterwards directly over the distribution points to needy Berlin citizens further or passed on to social facilities.
Your Tasks
The co-drivers form a team with the drivers and help to pick up food from the donors. On site at the supermarkets it is your task to get in contact with the donors. Then you load the donations into the car together and set off for the next stop. After a successful pickup, the tour ends at the Berlin wholesale market, where the car is unloaded and cleaned, if necessary.
What's needed
You should have basic physical fitness and ideally also be able to lift up to 10 kilograms. An interest in handling food is an advantage, and you should also have no reservations about coming into contact with a wide variety of people and also with goods that are sometimes no longer edible.
Time required
An assignment is usually 4 to 6 hours long.
We are very happy about volunteers who decide for a fixed tour and thus a regular weekly assignment, but also an irregular assignment is a great help to us. The frequency and regularity of the assignment is up to you.
Where?
Berliner Tafel e.V.
Every day, tons of perfectly good, edible food is thrown away in Berlin. Fresh nourishment that could help many Berliners in need if it were distributed properly - something that the Berliner Tafel e.V. has been accomplishing successfully since 1993, For 25 years, Berliner Tafel members and volunteers have been rescuing donated food, sorting it, and delivering it to social and charitable organizations throughout the city.